terms

• Statute of Westminster: allowed Canada to make its own decisions and Canada declared war on Germany on September 10th, 1939
• The Allies: Britain, France, Russia
• Axis Powers: Germany, Italy, Japan
• Mussolini: Italian dictator, Fascist
• Nuremberg Laws: anti semitic and racist laws enacted in Nazi Germany on September 15th, 1939

  • Deprived Jews of rights
  • Took away their citizenship
  • Forbade people to marry or have sex with Jews to keep the “master race”
  • Nuremberg trials: 1945-1949 were trials for war crimes of Nazi officials
• Kristallnacht: “night of broken glass” November 9-10, 1938

  • Where Germans attacked jewish property
• • Kanada: storage areas in Auschwitz to store the stolen belongings of prisoners who had died in the gas chambers
• V-E day: the day the Germans formally surrendered to the Allies (May 8th, 1945)

  • Knows as Victory in Europe day or VE day
• Heinrich Hoffman: Hitlers photographer